The term “culture” has become something of a buzzword in the world of business. Many corporations and large companies like to talk about how they have “strong” or “innovative” and “modern” cultures, but what does this mean, exactly? An organization’s culture, personally, is defined by how the people within this organization behave and interact with one another. This includes management, mid-level management, team leaders and the people at the very bottom of the organizational … [Read more...]

A Celebration of Women™
is elated to Celebrate the Life of this Canadian woman leader drawing from her personal experiences, she spoke about the power to end the discrimination that people with mental illness and addictions face everyday.
Dr. Catherine Zahn "We Are All Mentally ill"
In order to make this change, she urged the audience to do thee things:
"Discover the truth, Discuss it openly and Demand attention to this critical issue."
WOMAN of … [Read more...]

A Celebration of Women™
is elated to Celebrate the Life of this woman leader, a remarkable woman who lead for years the boardroom of global corporations, leading the way for all women.
WOMAN of ACTION™
Dame Marjorie Morris Scardino
Scardino was born in Flagstaff, Arizona in 1947, but grew up in Texarkana, Texas. While living in Texas she participated in rodeo riding as a teenager.
Scardino is a … [Read more...]

Inside Starwood’s "Out-of-the-Box Thinking” session, the chief executive discussed how Starwood’s St. Regis, The Luxury Collection and W Hotels are responding to challenges in targeting the new luxury consumer. Savvy marketers will examine how the industry is changing as a result of this new fast-moving, technology-driven age and respond quickly.
“The wealthy today are more diverse,” said Frits van Paasschen, president/CEO of Starwood Hotels & Resorts. “There are more wealthy Women; and … [Read more...]

Bill Gates and Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia, the two billionaires who control 95% of Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts are keen to expand the business as fast as possible, to 150 hotels worldwide from the current 90.
After the surprise departure of Kathleen Taylor (a company veteran for 24 years) more than a month ago, headhunters look for a new leader for the company, Four Seasons, being run, in the meantime, by a nine-person committee.
Kathleen Taylor spent years preparing for … [Read more...]

James Earl Jones: CEOs earn more if their voices sound like his.
If James Earl Jones were the boss, he would likely make hundreds of thousands a year more than a CEO who sounded like Mike Tyson.
Those are the findings of new research by Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.
The study, published online April 8 in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior, shows that male CEOs with deeper voices tend to manage larger companies, make more money and stay in their jobs for … [Read more...]

Sheryl Sandberg is Taking Action to celebrate and embrace 'Woman Leadership' in our new millennium's 'women's movement' creating a new website community for individuals to share ideas on leadership collaboration, inspiration and motivation.
In the welcome to her new website (Community-Women/Men), she says: LEAN IN
"Whether you are a woman or man…have read the book “Lean In” or not … are just starting out, considering a change, taking a break, looking to start something new, or trying to … [Read more...]

Resilience in Women
Sustainable Self-Esteem
One of the terms that is often used when considering how we cope collectively with the triple challenges of peak oil, climate change and economic meltdown is “resilience”.
It seems we would benefit from cultivating this collectively at the levels of local community, at a national level and globally.
Whenever we attempt to establish resilience at a community level (any sort of community, whether this is your … [Read more...]

Leading Forward
in the
Face of Crisis
Leading in the face of crisis means building your 3Q Leadership™ Edge
►HOW? Shift your mindset
Seeing your strengths and challenges, stressors and turning points, even your most difficult transitions or crises with new eyes that help YOU build your most important advantage, your 3Q Edge™. Yes, learning and unlearning faster and better than before. Making a pivotal shift in mindset that will help you learn and unlearn faster, develop improved whole … [Read more...]

Canada is a land of equal opportunity, where women can work and excel in the same jobs as men. Just don't expect them to get paid the same. In fact, Canadian men earn on average 20 per cent more than their female colleagues, one of the largest gender wage gaps in the developed world.
What jobs should Canadian women target to beef up their earnings? Here are the ten highest-paying careers for women in the nation, including the rare one where females earn more than their male … [Read more...]

Private Enterprise for Public Health
Opportunities for Business to Improve Women’s and Children’s Health - A short guide for companies
Author(s)/Publisher(s):
The Innovation Working Group *IWG) in support of Every Woman Every Child Initiative
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) and
The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH)
Publication date: 2012
Number of pages: 44
Language: English
Media Advisory: Launch of Private … [Read more...]

A Celebration of Women™
is elated to Celebrate the Life of yet another trail blazer inside the Women of our World.
This Powerhouse has managed to raise over 1,000,000 interested souls in her mission through the tools of social media, single handedly. Her Mission in this Lifetime works for the basic rights of life - human rights, civil rights, sexual rights, life rights. A true pioneer in the Gay Communities, this WOMAN of ACTION™ speaks for herself below.
WOMAN of ACTION™ … [Read more...]

Background
PBD India: One of the initiatives created by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and India’s Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA) is to strengthen connections between India and its 25 million Diaspora. Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, when translated from Hindi, the main official language of India, the phrase
PBD means The Day for Overseas Indians. PBD is held every year (January 7-9) in India.
Some of the major outcomes of PBD conventions relate to:
1.Formulation of the Overseas … [Read more...]

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